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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1897
Page
7
The Miowera reports another massacre of white gold seekers in New Guiana near Fort Moresby. Whites and natives clashed as hundreds were killed with tomahawks and forced to starve while government troops move in to detain natives in custody.
The British ship Wallaroo annexed the Solomon islands including Bellona and Runnell, hoisting the union jack and noting rich cocoanuts and copper ore. Warships gathered in Honolulu harbor as tensions rise over Asiatic labor influx amid potential international intervention. The report also recounts John Bennett’s St Nicholas tale Master Skylark and its London theater scenes with Nick’s songs drawing crowds.
London announces that Great Britain will join the United States in an international conference on pelagic sealing in the Bering Sea to be held in Washington in the coming autumn.
A Lexington correspondent recalls the Shaker mill on Shawnee run in Mercer County built circa 1809 by John Meacham and Benjamin Youngs. Once a centerpiece for a thriving Shaker community, it powered by two overshot wheels and fed markets from Louisville to New Orleans, famed for fine flour and salt rising bread. Dam washout in 1896 ended regular grinding and later work declined.
A captain hid two gallons of brandy aboard and sent a smart cabin boy ashore with the jars. When approached by a customs officer the boy refused to reveal the contents, claiming the captain ordered him to deliver to a Mr. 12 B Street. The officer bribed the boy and directed him to a different exit, delaying the arrest as the plan to land the cargo continued to unfold.
McCorkle notes Mrs Bickers treats her husband badly and compares him to a bicycle tire in a sharp exchange. McCrackle asks for clarification as the comment circulates in Harper’s Bazar style chatter.
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